Prologue One: Laos If you fly into the thousand-year-old city of Vientiane, the city of sandalwood in Laos, resting on a long, slow-rolling curve in the great Mekong River, touching Thailand, time appears to slow down, settling just above a stall. You cannot help but slow as well, with Vientiane sweltering under the sun, leaving the tension and stress of life behind, casting aside a great weight carried through your life, unnoticed until now. The wide, lazy French streets feel, no matter how
Published on December 03, 2015 02:17